My goodness, I sure haven’t written in these here pages in a long while! Blasted work has kept me busy but good news, I finally have decided to semi-retire. That only means I will “attempt” to take every Monday and Friday off; let’s see if this works. If it does, it will give me some time to do what I feel like doing.
Anyway, I want back into the fray and there is so much going on that does need comment!
The day after the Indiana and North Carolina Democratic Primaries, it is time to ask Hillary to step down.
She barely won Indiana (working class whites) and drowned in North Carolina. She came out with a smile after the primary debacle and promised to fight on. She even borrowed her campaign another bunch of millions of her own (and Bill’s) dollars in an expensive gesture to show that she “really” thinks she has a chance.
I have been watching this on the sidelines for some time with really no overriding liking for either Hillary or Obama; just watching…
Lately though, she has started to grate on me. That “gasoline federal tax exemption” for the summer driving season that she proposed, made me see her as a stupid, populist politician that would stoop to any level to get the popular vote. Obama said the proposal was stupid and would not bring any sizeable relief to the common man; a long term energy plan would make more sense.
I saw a leader on one hand and a political hack on the other and I knew she cannot be our next president. I should have known that ever since she tried to introduce “socialized medicine” into the United State; she is a flaming populist socialist.
Barack is still a Democrat and has a socialist streak in him but I detect ability at independent thought; a willingness to look at all sides and come out with the best possible plan instead of the most popular.
His stance against Hillary’s (and McCain’s) plan to halt the gas tax was nothing short of brilliant. Ninety (90%) percent of people polled on the subject agreed that temporarily halting the federal tax on gasoline was a political ploy with no serious benefit for anyone. The voters saw right through Hillary and I think this one issue may have finally done her in.
She does not have to quit and probably will not but the longer she stays in the race, the more clownish she will appear until she will be nothing more than someone to be pitied.
Is she harming the Democratic Party? Well, the longer Obama fights her and she keeps attacking him; the less either candidate will appeal to the electorate. The constant in-fighting, with each candidate finding new ways to portray each other in a worsening light; exposing more and more negatives about each other will create the impression that McCain is the only sensible choice.
There are voters that will not allow another Republican, no matter who he is, into the White House but there are those that do not feel that way and are waiting to feel that something that will help them decide on the candidate to be their next president.
Hillary should resign but if she does not, Obama must begin campaigning against McCain and totally ignore Hillary; I see no other way out.
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